Michele D. Ribeiro – Yoga & Mindfulness Therapy

You will come away from this recording with a clear understanding of the neuroscience behind these practices, a profound experience for yourself, and new techniques and protocols for your therapy sessions to improve client outcomes.

Michele D. Ribeiro – Yoga & Mindfulness Therapy

Yoga and mindfulness are based in the idea that you can cultivate a healthy, happy life by intention, using mind-body meditative methods.
Recent neuroscience research indicates that these evidence-based practices change the brain in ways that help overcome anxiety, depression, trauma, and substance abuse. Learn an integrative approach to mind, body, spirit healing using the natural, built-in capacity to think, sense, move, and feel in the present moment.
Practice interventions with Michele D. Ribeiro, EdD, CGP, experienced yoga and mindfulness teacher, clinician and researcher. Learn how to help your clients regulate their emotions, clarify their thinking, and lessen physical discomforts. Deepen the therapeutic relationship as you awaken your healing presence and empower yourself and your clients to make better choices.
You will come away from this recording with a clear understanding of the neuroscience behind these practices, a profound experience for yourself, and new techniques and protocols for your therapy sessions to improve client outcomes.

Incorporate simple yoga and mindfulness practices that can be used as clinical skills.
Incorporate breathing interventions/practices to help reduce anxiety and depression.
Practice body awareness techniques to help stabilize your client with trauma, anxiety, depression and substance abuse.
Teach clients how to practice self-compassion using mindfulness techniques.
Develop a four-step meditation to aid in affirming positive thought and decreasing negative ruminations.
Analyze the neuroscience of anxiety, trauma and depression and how it impacts your clinical work.

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Neuroscience of the Mind-Body Unity

Your responsive nervous system: Neuroplasticity and neurogenesis, and how to activate the brain for change
Mind-body link: How the mind changes the body and the body changes the mind to transform
Networks of interaction and influence: Mirror neurons and attachment
How yoga breathing, mindfulness, and meditation bring balance and wellbeing to dysregulated nervous system and a troubled mind

Mindfulness and Yoga as an Evidence-Based Clinical Intervention:
A Holistic, Mind/Body Approach

Unifying by intention: One with your true being in mind, body, and spirit

Top-down: Harness the healing power of thought
Bottom-up: Use the body and the breath to activate the vagus nerve for calm and balance
Horizontal: Cross modalities and hemispheres to work around defenses and elicit new potentials

Find Courage from Anxiety, Fear, and Panic

Turn from fearful anticipation of the future to the mindful present
Quickly reduce heightened anxiety with moving meditations
Breathing to reverse the fight, flight, freeze stress response
Reset the nervous system to find a calm, confident balance

Posttraumatic Growth: A Journey to Transform Trauma

Convert implicit memories from the source of pain to a resource for strength
Create an internal safe sanctuary
Meditative breathing to develop self-regulation and inner control
Resonate with inner strength: Mantra and posture practice
Elicit the brain’s natural capacity to heal through the mind-body link
Nurture compassion for self and others

The Path from Depression

Reconnect the disconnect between frontal and limbic areas in depression to stop unproductive ruminations
Four-Step method to observe and detach from negative thoughts that elicit depression
Develop non-judgmental awareness
Breathing and body meditations to balance energy
Leave the past by living in the present moment
Mindful attuning to your radiant deeper nature
Gratitude meditations to nurture a positive life

Rewire the Compromised Reward Pathway in Addiction

Detach from drugs
Go beyond pleasure and pain
Soothe with comfort practices
Mindful acceptance
Develop a healthy and wise inner compass
Find joy from life itself in the present moment